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If you had unlimited time would you be able to figure out who you truly are?
Matt Haig tackles the philosophical questions of how humans define themselves and find their place in the world in this deep novel of a man’s search for his daughter and a place to call home.
Tom Hazard has lived for centuries. He doesn’t know how or why but his body ages slower than normal-one year for every 50 years. After losing his mother to the hysteria of a town believing she was a witch because of his eternal youth Tom begins his life of running. When he meets Rose and feels love for the first time he thinks that maybe things could be different. Everywhere they settle after time people realize he is different and the paranoia and accusations close in on them. In order to protect those he loves he must leave. Now after four centuries he begins to question if fear has actually frozen him in time,
This was my first Matt Haig novel. The Midnight Library has been on my TBR forever. I found the story engaging and thought provoking. The historical details are clever, painting a colorful picture of great figures like Shakespeare and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story at times did feel repetitive. The timeline jumped around from the present to the past but not in any linear type sequence, Haig also seemed to love using lists in the narration. If you liked Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life or V.E.Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue you will enjoy this book.